WI BIO - Green Lake Co - WIECZOREK, Simon

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 358

Rev. Simon WIECZOREK, Berlin [Green Lake County, Wisconsin], was born in 
Russian Poland in 1838. His father was a farmer, with whom he spent the 
early years of his life, and received his preliminary education. He pursued 
his theological studies at Orleans, in France, and completed them at the 
college in Rome, in 1863. The same year he came to this country, locating in 
Michigan, where he remained four years, building two churches. He then went 
to Chicago [Cook County, Illinois], where he remained one year, when he came 
to Milwaukee diocese, and took charge of St. Stanislaus [Kostka] Church, of 
this city [Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin], where he has rendered 
valuable services in building up the church and increasing its membership. 
[St. Stanislaus Kostka (Polish) Roman Catholic church (167 N. Wisconsin 
Street in Berlin), founded in 1873, was recently merged with St. Michael's 
(Polish) Roman Catholic (320 S. W. Franklin Street in Berlin), founded 1895, 
and St. Joseph's (German) Roman Catholic (246 E. Park Avenue in Berlin), 
founded 1853, into one parish in the Madison Diocese called All Saints.] 

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